Optiver reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(575 total reviews)

62% positive business outlook

Optiver has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 575 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optiver employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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575 reviews
3.0
Jul 14, 2023

Weird culture

Recommend
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Pros

Pros - amazing technology and systems - smart people - fast learning curve - nice salary and benefits - it is possible to switch from one desk to another - people are not secretive and are very willing to teach you about their business and what they do even if it's not directly related to what you do - culture is quite direct and compared to other companies there is not that much of office politics - social events are often organised and usually very nicely managed

Cons

- they want you to be always on your tip toes, lot of unnecessary pressure - most people have never worked outside of the company, so they don't realise they wouldn't perform without the amazing systems and support teams behind them and tend to have a very high opinion of themselves - very low base salary (compensated by high bonuses)

3.0
Jun 23, 2023

Great colleagues, terrible managers

Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues and pretty good work environment.

Cons

Terrible managers. Spend time covering their behind and shifting blames.

3.0
Oct 12, 2021

Decent

Recommend
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Pros

The money is good. Sometimes interesting work.

Cons

Most of the money you make goes to shareholder and managers. Let's say you have just joined and the spot you are trading makes 10m in a year. Half will go to shareholders, most of the rest will go to managers, and you'd take home a bonus of maybe 200-300k. For the first few years your boss will literally earn 20x what you are in bonuses, and he won't even be enduring the stress of trading. Still pretty good money though.

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